Vu Tran's first novel, Dragonfish, was a NY Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of the Year. His short fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications. He is the winner a Whiting Writers’ Award and has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. Born in Vietnam and raised in Oklahoma, Vu received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his Ph. D. from the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is currently an assistant professor of practice in English and creative writing at the University of Chicago, where he directs the fiction program.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Vu Tran
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell fellowships: 2017
More:
www.vutranwriter.com
Studios
Mansfield
Vu Tran worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…